Activist Rails Against ‘Myth’ that U.S. IT Skills Are Inferior
by Deborah PerelmanBaseline, May 23, 2007
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“On the heels of a busy season for H-1B-related activity—a record-breaking depletion of the temporary worker visas, two related pieces of Senate legislation and a published list of the companies that are taking the most advantage of the program—a technology activist on May 23 set out to pan ‘the myth that Americans can’t cut it in technology.’ …”
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May 25th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
The problem is not inferiority: it is price.
I have a fraternity brother that makes his income outsourcing IT jobs to Russia.
The currency in that country is quite depressed in comparison to American monetary scales.
So, he bids online for jobs that he farms out to IT workers in the former USSR. He pockets a ton of money doing this. My question to him, in our friendly debate is: when does it end? When it affect YOU?
Eventually, the outsourcers may find themselves outsourced.
May 26th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
The Russian abuse of H1B jobs is les prononce dthan the Indian abuse of this system. the Indian abuse is so widesread, that the Indians are now taking it for granted, that any job in the US is up for grabs by a low wage Wipro employee
Rav Balu